Exporting and importingContent Delivery information between Topology Manager instances in a DTAP setup
In a DTAP setup, you can export the definitions of your Content Delivery environments (Web sites, Web applications and so on) from the Topology Manager in your Production instance to the one in, say, your Development instance.
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To export and import this information, you run an export, and then modify the export file in such a way that the Topology (the logical organization of your publishing infrastructure) is preserved, but the host names, port numbers and URLs are adapted for the instance into which you are importing. After you have imported the definitions, you can run a synchronization cmdlet one or more times to actually recreate the Content Delivery environment(s) in your target instance.